Category: Forum
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[AF Forum 07] The Chao Brothers: Research on Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture
After China’s reform and opening-up, artists have been digging for new materials, exploring new technologies and expanding new forms in ceramics. In terms of material selection, glaze color preparation, decorative treatment, molding techniques, firing techniques and artistic concept expression, they have created art forms different from those in any previous period. Artists are becoming more…
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[AF Forum 06] Liu Yuedi: Serving Tea & Filling-water-up, Neither Sculpturing Nor Modeling: Zhang Yu’s Artistic Expansion After “Fingerprints”
The creative art of Zhang Yu, from the ink wash experiments in the 1980s to today’s contemporary experiments, has been developed for nearly forty vears, and now Zhang Yu’s series of up-works that Zhang Yu has published–Ink, Tea, and Water–also started thinking about the up-philosophy.
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[AF Forum 05] Nuo Min: Seeing at Stake: The Anti-Aesthetic of Bio-art
Bio-art draws on emerging biotechnologies to create works of art that remove technology from the context of using, accomplishing something similar to Duchamp’s revolutionary art production models while providing a value-neutral platform to examine the current state of biotechnology. Foster’s anti-aesthetic is here, not in a pejorative sense but rather marking an interdisciplinary practice that…
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[AF Forum 04] Niu Liang: An Exploration of the Origin of Huang Binhong’s Painting ldeas
The Huang Binhong’s painting ideas are “to understand the theory of painting, to inherit the ancient method, and to promote innovation”, studying the relationship between Huang Binhong’s painting ideas and those of Chinese painting ideas through the ages is helpful to understanding the formation of his painting ideas. This study investigates the relationship between Huang…
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[AF Forum 03] Guo Wenning: Confusion of lmages
Chinese and Western painting have different concepts and methods. As far as realistic painting is concerned, in today’s information age, when facing the vast number of images that exist, we encounter confusion about these readily available images. This article discusses the problem of images from two aspects: the trouble of the photograph in realistic painting…
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[AF Forum 02] Dong Rui: The Intertextuality Between Han Great Rhapsody and Hunting Images in the Han
Han Great Rhapsody features fictional royal gardens and forest hunting and was composed by Mei Cheng during the reign of Emperor Jing of the Western Han Dynasty. Han hunting images appeared under Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and their production was closely related to the change in political forms. The distribution of hunting images…
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[AF Forum 01] Junping Liu: Art History of Anti-Epidemic
This talk identifies depictions of diverse ways that people handled these topics, and explains how throughout time people used social, cultural, and increasingly scientific practices to ward off disease. In doing so, this project brings old topics into new focus for cultural and visual history.